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Maybe he should have blown the bloody doors off? Michael Caine spent an uncomfortable night locked in the attic of an empty theater in New Orleans during the filming of heist movie Now You See Me, a production source tells the Mirror. The 79-year-old actor went to a makeshift dressing room for a quick nap, but failed to hear directors calling a wrap and was locked in by crew members who thought he had gone to his trailer.

"When Michael eventually woke up, he realized he was locked in," the source says. “His mobile phone was in his trailer and there was no electricity in the attic, meaning he couldn’t see a thing. It was pitch black." Caine was only found the next morning when a carpenter arrived on-set and heard his cries. "It’s fair to say Michael wasn’t in the best of moods—although he was grateful to have been found," the source says.

As a seasoned actor, Mr. Caine would hopefully look at this as something to put in his actor's tool chest, something to draw on for future characters.

ladyrosedeky

May 16, 2012 6:56 PM CDT

Reminds me of the delightful story about the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan who was taking a tour of a new mental health facility one day when he decided to take a nap in one of the rooms and got locked in. When he woke up, he couldn't get out because there were no handles on the doors so he pushed the button to request someone let him out. The facility clerk who responded didn't believe him when he told him who he was and wouldn't let him out. One of the senator's aides came looking for him a little while later and he was finally allowed to leave.